Hi, Ali,

Thanks for reply. I'm using ARM ISA and running Android APK file and
Bbench. If I make checkpoint with 2 cores and restore it, There are insts
being executed, but I cannot see anything new from frame buffer if I use
"--frame-capture". Any suggestion? Thanks

Xiangyang


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:

> What version of gem5 and what architecture/benchmark/os are you running?
>
> You should be able to make a checkpoint with 1, 2, or 4 cores (or as many
> as the particular system/platform supports). Booting without caches should
> work just as well as booting with caches.
>
> You should create a checkpoint with the number of cores you wish to
> restore from.
>
>
> Ali
>
> On Aug 31, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Xiangyang Guo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to use the Simple CPU to boot up for FS. I also want to use 2
> cores to runt he simulation. When I use 2 cores to boot my system, it takes
> about 6 hours and it still running. From the frame buffer, and I can see it
> stops at some place. If I use 1 core to boot up, it will take about 1-2
> hours. So could I know if I can use 2 cores to make checkpoint?  I guess if
> we want to use 2 core , we should enable caches, but we should disable
> caches to make checkpoint, that's why it cannot boot up successfully,
> please correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > If we cannot make checkpoint with 2 cores, can we restart the simulation
> from the checkpoint with 2 cores while we use 1 core to make checkpoint?  I
> tried this and it seems that there are inst to be executed, but the frame
> buffer stay at the one pic and never change.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Xiangyang
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